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What stage are we at with the Qatar jet?

submitted 17 hours ago • 168 comments

"The President is selling access and influence to the highest bidder. Qatar isn't giving a $400 million jet out of the goodness of their hearts – they expect something in return. That's how transactional relationships work, and nobody understands transactional relationships better than Trump."

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Trump’s America

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

If this isn't a bribe, we don't know what is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiGD...

submitted 18 hours ago • 127 comments

Looking forward to traveling to Cedar Rapids on Tuesday for our town hall with @votevets.org. If you can't join us in person but want to tune in virtually, sign up here to watch the livestream:

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This can’t be true because Trump assures us that Putin just wants peace.

submitted 17 hours ago • 33 comments

When Trump... -Holds a private dinner for his crypto coin buyers -Promotes Teslas on the White House driveway on behalf of a multibillionaire who spent $277M backing him -Uses state visits to advance his hotel business It's corruption, plain and simple.

submitted 17 hours ago • 184 comments

If members of the WH Press Corp don’t ask this question RELENTLESSLY they should turn in their badges.

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Duffy on the air traffic control system: "The lights are blinking, the sirens are turning ... what you see in Newark is gonna happen in other places across the country." Good luck, air travelers!

submitted 1 day ago • 1086 comments

As Trump bans Trans people from the military, I’m joined by @esqueer.net to discuss the deeper implications for the LGBTQ+ community - only on #TheWeekendShow at 8pm EST @meidastouch.com youtube.com/live/ASTZ31R...

submitted 18 hours ago • 10 comments

I seriously think Trump’s ICE goons include the #ProudBoys he pardoned for the murderous insurrection.

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HUMILIATED ON LIVE TV: In a desperate smear, Marjorie Taylor Greene cropped a photo to make it look like a committee witness flipped her off - but he really held up TWO fingers. Rep. Rep. Melanie Stansbury brought receipts and it was epic. Watch Kimmel rip MTG to shreds:

submitted 16 hours ago • 102 comments

We lost our Republic on November 5th. If you can’t or won’t see that, and you won’t fight this fascism, we’re not getting back. That isn’t hyperbole, it’s acknowledging reality.

submitted 18 hours ago • 179 comments

For everyone who was like “Google search is getting worse,” we were absolutely right.

submitted 17 hours ago • 277 comments

Tomorrow Trump will be signing an executive order ending all current and future wars and announcing the concepts of many trade deals.

submitted 16 hours ago • 123 comments

This is a very consultant-brain type of thinking bc swing voters aren’t “centrists” by any meaningful sense of the world. Their most salient ideological characteristics are, like, a general disinterest in “the news” and a loose and absolutely incoherent set of political beliefs

submitted 22 hours ago • 157 comments

Small-business owners facing steep China tariffs are laying off staff and withdrawing personal savings, trying to hold on and hoping for a trade deal

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AOC: We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces — and, in many cases, their identification… The idea that we’re going to allow a paramilitary force to bloom, one that isn’t accountable to the Constitution… we’ve got another thing coming.

submitted 1 day ago • 872 comments

Trump’s “very public and transparent transaction” on the Qatar jet grift only came to light after confidential sources told ABC about it.

submitted 16 hours ago • 203 comments

Why didn’t Welker push back on his statement that “we’ve had a massive expansion of government?” We’ve had the SAME NUMBER of government employees for over five decades. Corporate media, PUSH BACK WITH FACTS PLEASE.

submitted 16 hours ago • 233 comments

So, MAGA thinks Muslims like Ilhan Omar are trying to implement Sharia, and anyone who worked at Al Jazeera is a member of the radical Muslim Brotherhood, right and pawn of Qatar. Well, what does that make Trump who just accepted a giant bribe from Qatar? Hmmm...

submitted 16 hours ago • 53 comments

This insane weekend in politics. A recap:

submitted 16 hours ago • 217 comments

To win a war they cannot avoid, Chief Justice Roberts and his allies must rediscover their belief in a simple notion: The American president is not above the law.

submitted 16 hours ago • 43 comments

These fucking cowards.

submitted 16 hours ago • 245 comments

Trump confirms the Qatar plane story.

submitted 16 hours ago • 560 comments

Donald Trump is omitting that the plane is coming from Qatar. Total national security nightmare.

submitted 16 hours ago • 96 comments

A major U.S. pension fund has moved to halt new purchases of Tesla stock hopefully others will follow.

submitted 16 hours ago • 164 comments

Not that this needs to be said, but bribery out in the open is still bribery.

submitted 16 hours ago • 834 comments

Thing about Trump's prescription drug order is: he has zero power to do it (except for Medicare rates on a couple drugs, per the bill passed by Dems in 2022). Courts will block it. If Trump / Republicans cared about lowering drug prices, Congress has many ways to do so. They don't, so they won't.

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This week SCOTUS hears the birthright citizenship case. But not exactly. The issue isn’t whether Trump can undo the 14th Am’s guarantee of citizenship to anyone born in the United States; it’s whether a district judge can issue a nationwide injunction joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

submitted 16 hours ago • 30 comments

The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents. What the fuck are we doing here?

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RFK Jr talking about the need for doctors to know how to treat measles for those who are unvaccinated. “Only very sick kids should die from measles.” No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die. Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!

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Exactly this!

submitted 15 hours ago • 199 comments

Scientists believe that cats are uniquely smart when compared to dogs and other animals. But there are exceptions.

submitted 1 day ago • 134 comments

Happy #Caturday from Chumbus, who is clearly upset that I interrupted him for a photo.

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

What a distinguished gentleman…

submitted 2 days ago • 109 comments